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YAD Team

Organisation: YAD Team

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Chana Yaffe

Organisation: "Wings of the Spirit"

Hanna Yaffe is a storytelle and singer. She, lives in Jerusalem. She's on the road a lot, studied in Gateshead, converted to Carlebach!!! Hanna works with Tirtza and with storytellers of other faiths; they perform at Interfaith & New Age conference - reveling in the sameness of the universal story.

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Oren Yakobovich

Oren founded and directs B’Tselem’s video department, producing and directing films on human rights, managing an extensive human rights video archive and running the Shooting Back project involving distribution of cameras to Palestinian families and training them in video documentation. Prior to this he served in the elite Golani unit of the Israeli army, worked with youth at risk and other communities on the social periphery. An Israeli, he spent several years living and working in Germany.

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Moshe Madoi Yashiirah

Organisation: Kahal Kadosh Sheerit Yisrael - Jews of Uganda
Website: http://www.jewsofuganda.org/

Moshe is a youth from the Ugandan Jewish Community who was brought up by Jewish parents and now continues with Jewish life under the supervision and teachings of Enosh Keki Mainah. Moshe and Enosh are musicians and have composed many Jewish songs which the community uses even during services.

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Debbie Young-Somers

Organisation: West London Synagogue
Website: http://wls.org.uk/

Debbie is a rabbi at West London Synagogue, having received semichah at Leo Baeck College in 2009. Debbie's role focuses on interfaith; a major part of her pre-rabbinic life. Her rabbinic thesis examined transformations in niddah, and she is passionate about ritual and craft, which she cunningly brings together here.

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